My friend has a very nice dress that she wore to a wedding. I loved it so much that i went ahead and bought the exact same dress in my size for the cruise formal nights. My DH says I am a copycat to do that, and I agree.
Just wondering have any of you ladies done that too?
LOL I am really feeling like in college! :)).. I called her from the store to get the discount code but didn't tell her i got the same dress - oh I am feeling uncomfortable already! :D
Copying is the highest form of flattery!!!!
Yes....I went to a ladies lunch, saw a beautiful top on a woman built like me, asked her quietly where she found it....and went the very next day and bought one and wore it the following night to another event....I looked marvelous....
I do this with my sister ALL the time - it goes both ways. It worked while we were in living in different countries and would get together and shop. I would smile when I got dressed, thinking that maybe she was wearing it today, too. (silly, right?) Now we laugh when show up in the same shirt. (live closer now) She has the same shape as me, so what looks great on one will look great on the other! If I really like something, I often just get two and give her one in another color.
I see nothing wrong with buying the dress as long as you don't wear it anywhere she might also go. She found it first, she gets dibs.
I love fashion and watch what others wear. My big difference is I go find similar items at Target, TJ Maxx, etc. that produce a similar "look" within my budget.
Have a fantastic time on your cruise and rock that dress!!!
I think it's perfectly normal to get inspiration from others whose style you admire!
It is a great compliment to like something so much that you got one too. It says you think a lot of your friends taste. If you don't wear it to the same functions as her then who cares if you own each and every item she does.
Heck yeah! My BFF and I have the same exact tastes, but we're 2 totally different sizes... we often shop together and end up with the same stuff, like shoes and clothes. We even call each other to make sure we WON'T be wearing the same thing!
We do sometimes get different things, like purses and jewelry, so we can swap once in a while! :)
And yes, our husband's wildly make fun of us for it!!
You are wearing it on a cruise, it's not like you are showing up at her work wearing the dress ,or wearing it to a big event that she is also attending. It's hard to find a dress you love that also fits well. I'm glad you got it. Kate Middleton's blue dress sold out with a few days or so after she wore it. That is the nature of people who want to look good.
None of my friends have my same fashion taste, but I do get some things that are similar to some of the fashion blogs I read.
That's funny! Just tell her already! Say "I loved that dress you wore the other day so much, I went and bought it for my cruise!" It's not a big deal at all, it's not like you're both wearing the same prom dress to prom.
This post does remind me of my best friend when I was in 5th-7th grade. I loved that girl so much, and everybody called us "twins" even though she was like 4 or 5" taller than me...we had similar loud laughs, freckles, the same scary sense of humor, and we liked the same clothes. Funnily, I'd like one boy, she'd either like the same boy (if it wasn't serious) or if I was really liking him, she'd like his brother. Except she loved Joey from New Kids on the Block and I loved Sebastian from Skid Row or Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue. We just laughed it off as pre-teen stuff. I moved away, kept in touch 2 or 3 years, but then lost touch and I didn't see or talk to her for a solid 10 years, and one day I was driving through the old neighborhood and saw her dad in the yard. I stopped and asked about my friend, and he gave me her number. We made plans to meet at her parents' house to go to "our" restaurant at the mall (where else?) and catch up. When I drove up in my dark blue car in my levis, black heeled boots, 1980s Tshirt, silver bracelet, ring, and earrings, and my hair back, I just burst out laughing to see her in her similar model, dark blue car, with very nearly the same outfit, hair pulled back, silver bracelet, rings and earrings, and we had both even gotten a little "fluffy"! We just laughed and laughed, her mom cried which made it more funny. At the mall, I told her I wanted her to go into this store to smell this awesome lotion I'm all about---she guessed what it was, because that's what she has at home too. Sometimes, it really is just natural to be similar. Our lives couldn't have been any more different, but we still definately shared similar taste in "stuff".
I see nothing wrong with it. It's not like you were going to the same event and your intent was to upstage her. If the dress looked nice on you more power to ya sister! I would make sure that you don't wear it at the same time though. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that I've copied except recipes.
lol you should tell her! if my friend told me she loved my dress so much that she bought the same thing for herself i'd be flattered! plus if you don't tell her and you run into her wearing the dress, that'll be really awkward b/c then it just becomes wierd. lol. have fun on your cruise!
Only once in a blue moon, but yes... last year my girlfriend had the cutest wallet. I asked her about it and she was all on board for me getting the same exact style as hers (it's got a great graphic); I chose one similar to hers but with a different pattern. We go out together from time to time and it would just have felt a bit too matchy-matchy for me.
LOL! heck yeah. Just make sure you tell her. No big deal!
One time I purchased shoes that I thought were the cutest and my ex BFF never complimented me on them but her hubby did, I did not think nothing of it until a week later I saw her in the same shoes.
I said to her "Oh I did not know you had the same shoes" and she replied I had mine a while ago. It was clear to me she was lying.
I started to notice this pattern and the lying about it made it even bigger than it should have been.
Not since junior high. LOL!
Seriously, why not? But best call her and make sure she's not wearing it anyplace dressy where you both might be...that would be a tad uncomfy.
Your post made me miss those good old days of rummaging thru my BFF's closet, Can I wear this tonight?? Oh where is that blue shirt, at _________ house!! What fun!! I long for a friendship like that again!
Let your friend know that you cherish her and that when you get back from your cruise y'all should take pictures in your matching dress!!
Merry Christmas!!
D.
My friends and I can not pull off the same clothes, but accessories we do this all the time! We can get away with it more because we all live in different states, but we do "claim" peices we know we have the same of when we do go out together. Like, I am wearing the butterfly earrings tonight! Ok, I am wearing the beaded asymetrical necklace etc. When we all lived together we just borrowed from eachother - had a check out system of sorts. It would not bother me so long as you do not wear it to the same event and my suggestion is you "style" it differently. So if she wore it with a simple pearl necklace and black pumps I suggest you go with a cute wrap or cape - chunky fun necklace and nude heels with colored hose (like black opaque). Basically change the styling of the outfit up to fit YOU and not to completly copy her look.
Sure - we have similiar styles but completely different bodies (i'm short and hippy, she's short and chesty) so while we like the same type things rarely can we pull of wearing the exact same item. :-)
noone has (well the rich excluded) brought an outfit that their first to wear, and friends always wear eachothers clothes,, no diferent then buying it in your same size
